Early WordPress 5.9 Look: The Road Toward Deeper Responsive Block Design

14 Aug 21
Gutenberg project lead Matías Ventura announced the Preliminary Road to 5.9 on the Make Core blog earlier today. He covered several big picture items, including several sub-points for each. He also ...

Wordfence and WPScan Publish Mid-Year WordPress Security Report

13 Aug 21
WPScan is on track to post a record-breaking year for WordPress plugin vulnerabilities submitted to its database, according to a collaborative mid-year security report the company published with Wordfence. In the ...

Yoast Joins Newfold Digital, Team To Stay in Place

12 Aug 21
Earlier today, Yoast CEO Marieke van de Rakt announced the company had been acquired by NewFold Digital. Yoast and its SEO-related business are expected to continue operating as usual with its ...

FSE Outreach Round #9: Building a Higher Ed Header

12 Aug 21
It feels like it has been ages since the WordPress community has had a call for testing Full Site Editing (FSE) features. The FSE Outreach Program was on a small hiatus. ...

Google Site Kit Plugin Ships Hot Fix for Critical Error That Caused Broken Websites

12 Aug 21
Google published an update to its Site Kit plugin for WordPress this afternoon with a hot fix for a critical issue affecting an unknown number of users. Reports of broken websites ...

#6 – Cory Miller on the WordPress Mergers and Acquisitions Landscape

11 Aug 21
About this episode. So on the podcast today we have Cory Miller. Cory is likely well known to many of you, he’s been a big part of the WordPress community for ...

Elastic Hits Back at OpenSearch, Making Client Libraries Incompatible with Amazon-led Open Source Fork

11 Aug 21
After Elastic, makers of the search and analytic engine Elasticsearch, re-licensed its core product so that it was no longer open source, Amazon led a community effort to fork it. In July ...

Simple WooCommerce Tips to Make Your Store Even Better

11 Aug 21
These days starting your own online store doesn’t have to be just a dream. Thanks to WordPress anyone can build an online store with WooCommerce. It’s quick, fairly easy and you ...

Emoji Toolbar Plugin Brings an Emoji Picker Back to the WordPress Editor

10 Aug 21
Earlier today, theme.es released its Emoji Toolbar project to the plugin directory. It is a simple picker that integrates with the WordPress Rich Text toolbar, allowing users to insert emoji directly ...

Automattic Invests $30M in Titan, a Business Email Startup

10 Aug 21
source: Titan.email Automattic has invested $30 million in Titan, a professional email suite aimed at businesses and companies offering white-labeled email solutions for customers. At WordCamp India 2021, Automattic CEO Matt ...